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NCLEX Nutrition

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1. Fats can lead to some medical problems






2. Where can you get more vitamin D?






3. How many calories/gram is protein?






4. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






5. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






6. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






7. What is the function of vitamin C?






8. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






9. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






10. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






11. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






12. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






13. What is the function of vitamin E?






14. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






15. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






16. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






17. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






18. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






19. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






20. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






21. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






22. What function is vitamin A?






23. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






24. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






25. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






26. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






27. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






28. What are healthy sources of fats?






29. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






30. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?






31. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






32. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?






33. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






34. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






35. What foods have high quality protein?






36. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






37. What function is vitamin D?






38. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?






39. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






40. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






41. What is normal albumin levels?






42. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






43. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






44. The higher the BMR a client has --






45. What is normal BMI?






46. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






47. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






48. Sources of fats






49. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






50. When does BMR increase?